Google Buys ReMail, Shuts Down App

Google has acquired the popular iPhone email app ReMail, and the company has removed the app on the Apple Store.

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Google has acquired the popular iPhone email app ReMail, and the company has removed the app on the Apple Store.

For those that have already purchased it, the ReMail app will continue to work, Gabor Cselle, the chief executive of ReMail, said in a blog post. Support will be provided through the end of March, and all previously for-pay services will be enabled.

Since the app doesn't require a ReMail server to function, Cselle implied that the app will work indefinitely for those who have purchased it.

The popular app works over Wi-Fi, and allows full-text searching, unlike Apple's iPhone mail applications, which just searches via the "To:", "From:," and "Subject:" headers.

"Gmail is where my obsession with email started as an engineering intern back in 2004, and I'm thrilled to be coming back to a place with so many familiar faces," Cselle wrote. "reMail's goal was reimagine mobile email, and I'm proud we have built a product that so many users find useful. Still, I feel like we've only seen the beginning of what's possible. Google is the best place in the world to improve the status quo on how people communicate and share information. If you have what it takes to make these changes happen, I encourage you to reach out and come join me."

Mark Hachman Mark joined ExtremeTech in 2001 as the news editor, after rival CMP/United Media decided at the time that online news did not make sense in the new millennium.
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